The Dark Arts of Immortality: Transformation through War, Sex, & Magic

By Ross G.H. Shott, Paula Merensuo, Ross G. H. Shott

If you had the power within your reach to insure your own immortality, would you risk all to grasp it? Think about it. No longer would you plead for the mercy of others. No longer would you bow to invisible masters. No longer would you struggle for table scraps. You could become master of your own destiny. You could become as God. Drawing on the findings of science, religion, sociology, psychology, philosophy, mythology, history, ancient texts, and metaphysics, The Dark Arts of Immortality explains how to harness and augment the energy of our innate drives. Through personal combat, sexual fantasy, and mystic rituals the death drive (mortido), sex drive (libido), and growth drive (physis) can provide doorways to supra-consciousness. These core altered states of being (fury, ecstasy, and exaltation) grant preternatural physical, mental, and spiritual abilities. The synthesis of these attributes will elevate personal power in this world and allow one to manifest a divine Being in the afterlife.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420880543
• ISBN13: 9781420880540
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

great book

This is a great book. It has a lot of ideas. A must read for anyone wanting to delve into the left hand path

Interesting

I picked up the book or a relative lark, and managed to read it. It isn't a large tomb, about a day of energized reading. All in all I found it entertaining but a bit too much of an overly quoted essay. Obviously a lot of time was spent finding good quotes; they make up maybe a third of the total text. The fact I was encouraged to drop and do some push-ups was entertaining and I like the stance of physical fitness locked within an occult model. I disagree perhaps with the idea that the Church of Satan is in any way a 'school' and that LaVey was quoted extensively in an antinominalist arena with the tenants of a promulgation of a post death 'soul' or ego. I didn't give it 4 stars though because I disagree with the author. I specifically rated it higher because I liked being challenged. I couldn't give it a full five stars though because it didn't really have a stabilized content in the way it sold itself. It has some facets of a `system', but is more a philosophical presentation with suggestions. The author is obviously a runer and uses the philosophy of such as a backbone of the presentation while suggesting the reader find there own system to stick to. Some decent content, and a good bibliography. Read it between a history or a fiction choice and you probably wont regret it as a whole.

NOT the same old fluffy crap

Mr Shott's work could be considered groundbreaking stuff. Not once in 25+ years of shelf shopping have I seen a book that melds together the concepts and ideals that 'Dark Arts' puts together. Personal transformation is certainly lacking in today's pagan movements. This book doesn't bother assisting you with yet one more convenient label to stick on yourself for the narrow-minded purpose of self-gratification. It tells you to get off your ass, think for yourself, DO for yourself and change yourself to that elevated True state of being that we should all be at and, yet, most of us are not. Buy this book. READ this book and become the person your ancestors would be proud of!!!

Immortality . . .

I don't know anything about the occult and I'm about as mystic as a block of wood. It is my option ... this book is for those who feel the life one holds is a gift to be cherished rather than a right one must wrest from other living things. Not for those who think there is a "free" immortality hand out for everyone after the ride is done. Reading the concepts in this book is easy, practicing them is much harder. With this I wish you luck.

Eternity's doors swing open with this one...

Have you ever picked up a book and after a few minutes realized you had just found something that would CHANGE you forever? And then wondered to yourself, how in the HELL did such a book ever make it into print? but were very glad that it did? The Dark Arts of Immortality is just such a book. I know what I'm talking about. Having a personal metaphysical library built over 13 years and which exceeds 300 volumes I can proudly say this new work by Ross G. H. Shott is solidly in the best of the best, the top 2%. It is truly is one of a kind. You're not going to find anything else like it out there. Earnest reader, you need THIS book. Its pages smolder with findings from the author's hard-won knowledge. And from them you will know that Shott is a daring spiritual seeker who will not be daunted. I have been fortunate enough to personally meet the author, and I can say without any hesitation that he is solid, centered, and real! Unlike many alleged occult experts, Ross G. H. Shott has spent years in deep study, practice, pain, and self-discipline to achieve a soundness of thought and practice which he has assimilated and refined -- and now released to us here in the real world of the 21st century!!! And whereas most authors find themselves too intimidated to ruthlessly pursue these arts, Shott has not only pursued, but mastered all three! And what lies beyond that? beyond such mastery? Well, The Dark Arts of Immortality shows you. How can its author do that? By his passionate and precise deployment of all three of these arts in the service of the greatest pursuit of human consciousness - the attainment of Immortality!!! If you've read this far then you already realize the value of this mighty text. But what are you going to DO about it? You're not the type to let this opportunity get past you... Your only real option is to buy this book, put everything else on hold and then dive into it completely! You'll feel the aethers quake as you open the cover...